Perfection Quotes

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God just turns on all the beauty He can possibly create, and that final Heaven on Earth, the eternal one of the New Heaven and… — David Berg
It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them. — Frederick Lenz
We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to. — Frederick Lenz
Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you… — Frederick Lenz
...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive… — Maximus the Confessor
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections. — Peter Prange
The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad. — Rajneesh
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied… — James Whistler
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality. — Baltasar Gracian
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. — Rabindranath Tagore
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it. — Hans Arp
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. — Quintilian
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When… — William Shakespeare
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished… — Eric Hoffer
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of… — Ambrose Bierce
Art has no end but its own perfection. — Plato
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones. — Victor Hugo
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it. — William Blake
Nothing quite new is perfect. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas… — Pablo Picasso
He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement. — Leonardo da Vinci
I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train… — Garrison Keillor

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